| Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011 |
| 80. | Hilsman, op. cit., pp. 501-502. |
| 81. | State msg 353, State to Lodge, September 7, 1963 (TS). |
| 82. | Major General V. C. Krulak, "Visit to Vietnam, 7-10 September 1963" (TS), pp. 1-2. |
| 83. | Ibid. |
| 84. | Ibid., pp. 2-3. |
| 85. | Schlesinger, op.cit., p. 905; Hilsman, op.cit., pp. 502-505; and Mecklin, op.cit., p. 208 give parallel accounts of this meeting. |
| 86. | Schlesinger, ibid. |
| 87. | Mecklin, op.cit., pp. 210-211. |
| 88. | Hilsman, op. cit., pp. 504-505. |
| 89. | State msg 313, Joint State/AID msg to Lodge, September 3, 1963. |
| 90. | Hilsman, op.cit., p. 505. |
| 91. | Mecklin, op.cit., p. 210. |
| 92. | Committee on Foregin Relations, U.S. Senate, Background Information Relating to Southeast Asia and Vietnam (3rd ed.) (Washington: GPO, July 1907), p. 13. |
| 93. | "Transcript of broadcast on NBC's 'Huntley-Brinkley Report', September 9, 1963", Public Papers of the Presidents, op.cit., p. 659. |
| 94. | Saigon msg 478, Lodge to State, September 11, 1963 (TS). Saigon msg 483, Lodge and Brent to State, on the same day, took the opposite view and requested permission to approve pending aid programs. This cable probably reflects Brent's view, in which Lodge concurred to avoid revealing the content of his earlier cable. |
| 95. | Saigon msgs 469-477, Lodge to State, September 12, 1963 (TS). |
| 96. | State msg 391, State to Lodge, September 12, 1963 (TS). |
| 97. | State msg 411, State to Lodge, September 14, 1963 (TS). |
| 98. | MACV msg 1649, Harkins to Taylor, September 9, 1963 (TS); MACV msg 1675, Harkins to Taylor, September 12, 1963 (TS); and John A. McCone, Director CIA, Memorandum, September 13, 1953 (TS). |
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